Published November 21, 2019

A local umpire from the West Central region has won a major award for his contributions to the game of baseball. Trevor Drury, who hails from Outlook, recently won the Dick Willis Memorial Award for Umpire of the Year in all of Canada. Trevor has been umpiring for 29 years now and said he got started when he was a teenager in Saskatoon as a job and got hooked right away. He has Kindersley connections as he umpired in the area while teaching in Eatonia.

He says he starting umpiring in Saskatoon as a teenager just as a job. As I got to higher levels I got to travel a bit more, met a lot of great people along the way, with a couple trips out to Kindersley working with David Burke, Vaughn Biberdorf and Rick Miller taught me the brotherhood of umpiring and that’s what really hooked me.

Drury said it was a huge honour because of the nomination coming from my peers. He has represented Canada three times at international tournaments including one in Osaka, Japan in 2015.